Jeopardy Layers of the Atmosphere Earth’s Seasons Plate Tectonics Weathering Lagniappe Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question: Layers of the Atmosphere What layer of the atmosphere has the highest altitude?

$100 Answer: Layers of the Atmosphere Thermosphere

$200 Question: Layers of the Atmosphere What is the name of the layer in the stratosphere that protects humans from the UV rays of the Sun?

$200 Answer: Layers of the Atmosphere Ozone layer

$300 Question: Layers of the Atmosphere What are three things that are found ONLY in the troposphere?

$300 Answer: Layers of the Atmosphere Living things Pollution Weather

$400 Question: Layers of the Atmosphere Compare the temperature AND air pressure of the troposphere and mesosphere

$400 Answer: Layers of the Atmosphere Troposphere has a higher temperature and air pressure in comparison to the mesosphere

$500 Question: Layers of the Atmosphere Order the layers of the atmosphere from LOWEST air pressure to HIGHEST

$500 Answer: Layers of the Atmosphere Thermosphere Mesosphere Stratosphere Troposphere

$100 Question: Earth’s Seasons What is it about the Earth that causes seasons to occur?

$100 Answer: Earth’s Seasons The Earth’s axis is tilted 23.5º

$200 Question: Earth’s Seasons Fill in the blanks: The season in the Northern Hemisphere is _______ because it is receiving _________ rays SUN N S

$200 Answer: Earth’s Seasons Summer Direct

$300 Question: Earth’s Seasons Explain why it is always hot at the equator

$300 Answer: Earth’s Seasons Sun always hits the Earth directly

$400 Question: Earth’s Seasons What is the difference between direct and indirect light?

$400 Answer: Earth’s Seasons Direct light is concentrated and strong, while indirect light is spread out and weak

$500 Question: Earth’s Seasons Why do the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere experience different seasons at the same time?

$500 Answer: Earth’s Seasons One hemisphere is always tilted toward the Sun and the other is tilted away

$100 Question: Plate Tectonics What are the names of the three plate boundaries?

$100 Answer: Plate Tectonics Divergent Transform Convergent

$200 Question: Plate Tectonics Contrast how plates move in a divergent and convergent boundary.

$200 Answer: Plate Tectonics Divergent: plates move away Convergent: plate move together

$300 Question: Plate Tectonics What are the three landforms created at a convergent boundary?

$300 Answer: Plate Tectonics Volcanoes, Trenches, Mountains

$400 Question: Plate Tectonics The deepest point in the world’s ocean is 6 miles below sea level (that’s 29,000 ft!!!) and happens to be at a plate boundary. Explain how this point was formed.

$400 Answer: Plate Tectonics Ocean plate sinks below a continental plate, causing a deep hole (convergent boundary)

$500 Question: Plate Tectonics Explain how a volcano is formed in this diagram

$500 Answer: Plate Tectonics Ocean plate sinks below continental plate. Plate melts and hot magma rises to form a volcano.

$100 Question: Weathering What type of weathering causes material to breakdown without changing the material?

$100 Answer: Weathering Mechanical

$200 Question: Weathering What are three things that cause mechanical weathering?

$200 Answer: Weathering Water Ice Plant roots

$300 Question: Weathering Describe the difference between chemical and mechanical weathering.

$300 Answer: Weathering Chemical weathering changes the material into something new, while mechanical weathering only breaks material down into smaller pieces

$400 Question: Weathering Describe what kind of weathering is occurring in this picture.

$400 Answer: Weathering Chemical weathering: air is reacting with rock

$500 Question: Weathering Give an example of how water can cause chemical weathering

$500 Answer: Weathering Water reacts with rock to dissolve the rock

$100 Question: Lagniappe What is happening to the universe to provide evidence for the Big Bang Theory?

$100 Answer: Lagniappe Universe is expanding

$200 Question: Lagniappe What do we know about the length of Mars’s year versus the length of Earth’s year? Why?

$200 Answer: Lagniappe Mars’s year is longer because it has to travel farther around the Sun.

$300 Question: Lagniappe What was one MAJOR contributor to making the atmosphere what it is today?

$300 Answer: Lagniappe Plants OR Volcanoes

$400 Question: Lagniappe Order these words from SMALLEST to LARGEST: Solar System Universe Planet Galaxy

$400 Answer: Lagniappe Planet Solar System Galaxy Universe

$500 Question: Lagniappe What does the “redshift” mean?

$500 Answer: Lagniappe Light shift to red as the galaxies are moving farther away from one another

Final Jeopardy What is convection?

Final Jeopardy Answer Describes movement of material in a circle: the warm rises and the cold sinks